In that year, after King Zhou Hui was driven out of the royal city by the prince, he asked for help from the Jin Kingdom, but Jin Xiangong was trapped by internal and external troubles at that time, so he was unable to rescue him. After Zheng and Yu joined forces to quell the prince's rebellion, Yu Gongchou made great contributions to his own self-reliance, and took the opportunity to encourage King Zhou Hui to govern the Jin people for the crime of not saving them from death; But King Zhou Hui didn't want to stir up trouble again, so he didn't approve his request.

Later, Jin Xiangong cleared the group of princes, and Yu Gongchou jumped out again and publicly shouted to crusade against the Jin Kingdom. King Zhou Hui couldn't stand his endless noise, so he said to him, "You can do whatever you want!" But don't use the royal army. After receiving permission, Yu Gongchou happily rushed back to the Kingdom of Qiu and began to prepare for war against the Jin Kingdom.

The kingdom of Yu was divided into two by the Yellow River: the capital Shangyang was located south of the Yellow River and southeast of Sanmenxia, and the second capital Xiayang was located on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the two cities faced each other across the bank.

In the twenty-sixth year of the reign of Emperor Lu Zhuang (668 BC), Yu Shi invaded the Jin Kingdom twice.

The Kingdom of Yu contained many exiles from the Jin Kingdom, and with the help of those people, Gong Chou gathered his army and set off with confidence. After crossing the Yellow River, he continued northward through the state of Yu (present-day Pinglu, Shanxi). The army passed through the Zhongtiao Mountains and entered the Yuncheng Basin, so that the Jin kingdom's Anyi and Tongyi were exposed to the invaders.

The fierce enemy swept away the two weak cities, and the Jin people could not come to the rescue, so Yu Gongchou led the army to return with joy.

In the winter of the second year (667 BC), the busy farming season had ended, and Jin Xiangong planned to take revenge on the kingdom of Qiu. The Great Sikong Shizhu dissuaded: "The time is not yet. The man of Duke Yu has always been arrogant and rude, and now that he has defeated the Jin Kingdom several times, he will definitely be even more arrogant; So he will abandon the people. Wait until he loses the hearts of the people to fight again, and there will be no one to buy his life for him. The abandonment of the people and the recklessness of the army are doomed to defeat.

"Now the surrounding small countries of Wei, Yang, Geng, and Huo are not virtuous, and they are waving their flags and shouting with Gong Yu. Jin invaded Yu, and they contained the Jin army in the rear; The minister thought it was time to destroy these nations. If we cut off the wings of the Duke of Qiu, I will rise and disappear, and the kingdom of Yu will die for no time. ”

However, Jin Xiangong expressed doubts about Shi Ping's remarks, and he believed that if he did not respond to the aggressive acts of the Kingdom of Qiu, the Jin State would be attacked by various enemies around it, and it would become a disaster for the Jin State. But Shi Ping said that if the Jin State failed to retaliate, it would be a real disaster! Jin Xiangong immediately asked for a war deduction, and the result of the deduction was that Jin Xiangong was defeated in all three battles; And the reason for the defeat is very simple - the Jin state is seriously understaffed.

It turned out that when Duke Wu of Jin was canonized as the Marquis of Jin, there was only one army under his command, and half of the children of the Gong clan accounted for half of the army. Later, Jin Xiangong purged many princes, and these children were also wiped out or scattered and fled. The current Jin army is an understaffed, recruited, and poorly trained.

Jin Xiangong realized the root and seriousness of the problem, so he began to vigorously develop military equipment. Three years later, the Jin State had established two armies, well-trained, brave and well-equipped. Jin Xiangong appointed Shi Peng, Yuan Di (Xun Xi), Yin Rui, Yin Xuan, Lu Nephew and other doctors as generals of the upper army, and appointed Rick, Pi Zheng, Luan Dun, Liang Youmi, and Yin Buyang as generals of the lower army.

In the thirty-second year of the reign of Lu Zhuang (662 BC), a strange and mysterious event occurred in the kingdom of Qiu: it is said that a "god" descended from heaven to the land of the kingdom of Qiu.

King Hui of Zhou summoned Nei Shiguo and asked him why God had come to earth, what the coming of God portended, and how he should deal with the event of God's descent. "If a nation is about to arise, God will come down to examine the virtues of the king; If a nation is about to perish, God will come down to record the sins of the monarch. So the gods come for different reasons, and the consequences are different - either a kingdom rises or a kingdom falls.

"When Xia is about to rise, Zhu Rong will descend on Chongshan, and when it is about to perish, Huilu will descend on Lingjiao; When the Shang was about to rise, Hanqi descended on Pishan, and when it was about to perish, Yiyang descended on the pasture; When the Western Zhou Dynasty was in the midst of the rejuvenation, the corrobin sang in Qishan, and when the emperor was about to die, Du Bo shot the king of Xuan in Haojing. These are the records of the gods in the world.

"There is no rule on how to deal with the gods of the world in the "Zhou Li", and the minister thinks that whenever he sees him, it is enough to give him a gift according to the rules of the "Zhou Li"; You don't have to ask God for anything, you don't have to ask God for anything, because those practices are useless. ”

King Hui asked what the identity of the god who had come down now was. Nei Shiguo said: "When King Zhao married the queen in Fangguo, this queen was not a person who could control her own discipline; At that time, people said that she was possessed by Danzhu, which gave birth to King Mu. Ghosts and gods generally don't get too far away from the body master, so the minister thinks that this god is Danzhu. ”

King Hui then sent Nei Shi Guo to Xindi to visit the gods. Neishi came to Xindi and finally met the legendary god Danzhu, who was tall and had strange bones; He has a high eyebrow arch, a garlic nose, a large mouth, and a Neanderthal face. After offering gifts to the gods with great devotion, he prepared to withdraw; The god immediately stopped him and asked Zhou Tianzi if he had any requests, and Nei Shiguo said: "The Son of Heaven knows that he has little virtue, and he only seeks to benefit the people with virtue, and does not dare to have other extravagant desires." ”

Yu Gongchou took the opportunity to loot a large number of people's fat and people's ointment, and then rushed to meet the gods with stolen goods and sons. Zhou Zhiqiao, the doctor of the kingdom, had a sense of déjà vu when he saw this god, as if he had met him by chance in some fireworks and willow alley; A look of surprise flashed across the great god's face when he saw him. But after the two sides confirmed their eyes, they tacitly returned to their normal demeanor.

He respectfully offered a very valuable gift to God, and asked God to give him land. This God receives gifts in all and responds to requests. He said, "I give you the land of the Kingdom of Jin!" ”

After returning to China, Nei Shi said to King Hui of Zhou: "The kingdom of Yu will soon perish. The minister heard: 'The kingdom will prosper, listen to the people; The kingdom is about to die, and listen to God. 'The prince and the ugly do not care about the people's livelihood, but accumulate the people's wealth, and spend the money on worshipping ghosts and gods; He will do whatever the people of the country hate; Despite the strong enemy on his side, he still did not know how to correct it. It is strange that such a country does not die. ”